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Roki Sasaki's splitter already looks like one of the best pitches in baseball

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher R.A. Dickey threw a kind of knuckleball that baseball had essentially never seen.

Now Roki Sasaki is throwing a pitch that can break in multiple directions pitch-to-pitch.

In his first start, Sasaki threw his splitter 18 times, generated eight swings and got seven whiffs.

The only pitch that is supposed to be able to break eight inches one way one way, then eight inches the opposite.

Roki Sasaki will make his MLB debut when he starts Game 2 of the Tokyo Series next week .

Sasaki is perhaps the hardest-throwing pitcher on the planet.

He throws a pitch with so many potential destinations that hitters have to be waiting to have a chance.